Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: designware: Fix corrupted memory seen in the ISR

[Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On 10/31/23 10:44, Yann Sionneau wrote:
> 
> Le 31/10/2023 à 01:12, Jan Bottorff a écrit :
>> On 10/26/2023 4:18 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>>> So, someone wants to come up with a patch to move to non-relaxed io
>>> accessors?
>>>
>> Is the current thinking to just make writes to DW_IC_INTR_MASK use the 
>> non-relaxed variant or something more broad?
>>
>> From a safest functioning viewpoint, we talked about making all 
>> accessors default to non-relaxed variants. A couple of pretty good 
>> arguments from knowledgeable people favored this. I know there also 
>> was some concerns about potential performance impact this might have 
>> although the counter argument was this is a pretty low speed device so 
>> some extra cpu cycles on register accesses were not likely to degrade 
>> overall performance.
>>
>> I could make the patch if we have consensus (or maintainers decision) 
>> on which way to go: 1) only writes to DW_IC_INTR_MASK are non-relaxed, 
>> 2) make all read/write accessors use the non-relaxed version.
>>
>> I'm personally in camp #2, safety first, performance fine tuning later 
>> if needed. Latent missing barrier bugs are difficult and time 
>> consuming to find.
> 
> Fine with me, let's go for #2 :)
> 
Also simplicity votes for #2.